MCA told to work with DAP or bite the dust
An analyst says MCA must work with DAP since it cannot continue to depend on Malay votes to win seats like in the past.
PETALING JAYA: An academic has advised MCA to curry favour with DAP so as to be in a good position to negotiate for winnable seats in the coming state elections.
PETALING JAYA: An academic has advised MCA to curry favour with DAP so as to be in a good position to negotiate for winnable seats in the coming state elections.
kt comments: Stop joking lah!
Awang Azman Pawi of Universiti Malaya said MCA had no choice but to work with DAP to remain relevant since Barisan Nasional was now part of Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government,,
MCA, along with Umno and MIC, are the three core BN components while DAP is a member of Anwar’s Pakatan Harapan.
“MCA cannot continue depending on Malay votes to win seats like in the past,” Awang Azman told FMT, referring to the party’s reliance on Umno to secure the Malay votes.
“Its survival depends a lot on its relationship with DAP. If it refuses, it will become irrelevant.”
He also said it would be good for the unity government if MCA were to work well with DAP.
MCA, along with Umno and MIC, are the three core BN components while DAP is a member of Anwar’s Pakatan Harapan.
“MCA cannot continue depending on Malay votes to win seats like in the past,” Awang Azman told FMT, referring to the party’s reliance on Umno to secure the Malay votes.
“Its survival depends a lot on its relationship with DAP. If it refuses, it will become irrelevant.”
He also said it would be good for the unity government if MCA were to work well with DAP.
kt comments: Stop joking lah!
Another academic, Azmi Hassan of Akademi Nusantara, said MCA must remain in BN or risk becoming inconsequential if the current alliance between the two coalitions strengthened.
Support for MCA had dwindled since 2008, he noted. “DAP is just too strong for MCA and it will have the upper hand when it comes to seat allocation.”
MCA won only two parliamentary seats in the recent general election and both were in Johor. DAP secured 40 seats.
James Chin, a professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania, said MCA’s diminishing influence did not necessarily mean its days were numbered.
He noted that it was rich in assets.
“People don’t realise that MCA’s assets like Wisma MCA, which it owns outright, and its majority shareholding in the Star Group amount to more than RM1 billion. With these, MCA will always stay as a political party,” he said.
Chin said the more important issue would be how PH was going to allocate the Chinese-majority constituencies that were traditionally the battlegrounds for MCA and DAP.
One option, he said, was to let these two parties fight it out head-on, reasoning that it was best to let the voters decide which party they preferred to be in government.
kt comments: This is more like it!
“This won’t affect the unity government as the parties will be seen as fighting for the voice of the Chinese,” he added.
Never underestimate MCA's durability.
ReplyDeleteThree major, major MCA advantages
1) MCA is rich with valuable and profitable assets.
Money , large amounts of it always goes a long way in this world
2) MCA's iron grip on UTAR and TARUC.
It continues to provide major political capital to MCA through the gratitude and appreciation of its graduates, many of whom could not have otherwise had the opportunity for higher education. MCA never fails to remind people to be grateful and appreciative for this.
DAP knows this very well, but Lim Guan Eng's clumsy and nasty attempts to break the MCA grip caused considerable blowback damage to DAP.
If DAP wants to try to break MCA's deathly grip again, it will have to restrategize and do it in a way that does not damage UTAR and TARUC. I'm sure it's not impossible.
3) MCA still has considerable grip and influence on the boards of Chinese Primary Schools , as well as Chinese Independent Schools all over the country. This is aided by MCA being part of the Federal Government fall all but 2 years 2018-2019.
In Penang, even with DAP/Pakatan in power for more than 14 years, they still have limited access to engage with Chinese Primary Schools, while MCA-linked figures still dominate the school boards.
DAP leaders are unwelcome in Johore's Foon Yew, but Najib - oh, such deep appreciation.
It is bullshit to say they want to keep politics out of schools, because Najib freely talked politics when he was invited to speak at Foon Yew.
I beg to differ, JC
ReplyDeleteMCA better transform itself into something else, like education related NGO. They will endear themselves much more to the Chinese and will be remembered by future generation.
If they remain and not win a single seat in the near future, then it's RIP.
MCA work with DAP?
ReplyDeleteThis is out of Comedy Central?